[innocentoldguy]

Distillery is a pain to set up, but once done, deployment is as easy as:

    mix edeliver build release production && mix edeliver deploy release production

I've set this up as an alias in mix.exs to I just have to type:

    mix deploy

1.9 makes configuration easier than Distillery, I think.

[AlchemistCamp]

1.9 does some of, but not all of what Distillery does. I'm still using Distillery because it supports upgrades instead of just full releases.